A list of seminars and webinars of relevance to researchers in infectious diseases. Joining links will be updated as they are made available. Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Protozoan & immunology: immune responses to trypanasome infection in zebrafish (cell biology, comparative biology, imaging, sequencing, cool model systems) Date: Wednesday 1 October 2025Time: 1 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24Speaker: Maria Forlenza, The Roslin InstituteHost: Georgia Perona-Wright Institute for Regeneration and Repair Seminar Series - All about single cell! Date: Thursday 2 October 2025Time: 1.30 pm to 5pmLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeakers: Alejandro Brenes (CIR), Florent Petitprez (CRH), Nadine Bestard (CRM) and Ailsa Laird (IRR Core Technologies) School of Biological Sciences Monday Seminar Series - Nodules and clocks: communication underground Date: Monday 6 October 2025Time: 12.05 pmLocation: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27 LT1Online: Via Zoom Passcode: X8H9eAdJSpeaker: Prof Miriam Gifford, University of WarwickHost: Annis Richardson, IMPS Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - The role of receptor interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) in human intestinal disease and infection Date: Wednesday 8 October 2025Time: 1 pmLocation: Ashworth Labs, Lecture Theatre 3 (LT3)Online: Via ZOOM Password: IIIRsem24Speaker: Jaclyn Pearson, University of St AndrewsHost: Joanna Young School of Biological Sciences Monday Seminar Series - Chromatin and epigenome regulation in a test tube Date: Monday 13 October 2025Time: 12 pmLocation: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27 LT1Speaker: Dr Hiro Funabiki, The Rockefeller UniversityHost: Jeyaprakash Arulanandam, ICB Easter Bush Seminar Series - Capturing Pluripotency Date: Monday 15 October 2025Time: 1.30 pmLocation: the Roslin Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RGSpeaker: Austin Smith, Exeter UniversityHost: Dr Tom Burdon, Functional genetics Murray Lecture 2025 - TBC Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025Time: 3.30-4.30pm (please arrive early for a prompt start, note there is only one entrance to the LT, at the front) reception, from 4.30pm outside lecture theatreLocation: Nucleus, B.01 - Alder LT, King's Buildings, EdinburghSpeaker: Professor Kim Nasmyth, Department of Biochemistry, University of OxfordRegistration: In order to gauge numbers for this event and provide sufficient catering, please can you register your attendance via this MS Form Please register by 15 October 2025 Institute of Ecology & Evolution seminar series - Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Animals, and Other Animals Health Themselves – and What we Can Learn from Them Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025Time: 2.10 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM Password: IEESem22Speaker: Jacobus De Roode, Emory College of Arts & SciencesHost: Ally Phillimore Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025Time: 2.10 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22Speaker: Rob Ness, University of Toronto, MississaugaHost: Jarrod Hadfield Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Autumn Session Date: Thursday 13 November 2025Time: 1.30 pm to 5pmLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeakers: Prof. Gregers Jungersen (Statens Serum Institut, Denmark)Prof. John Tregoning (Imperial)Dr. Joy Edwards-Hicks (Edinburgh, CIR) Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025Time: 2.10 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22Speaker: Stefano Mona, Université PSL, ParisHost: Simon Martin Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - TBA Date: Thursday 27 November 2025Time: 1 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24Speaker: Arthus Talman, Wellcome Sanger InstituteHost: Various Easter Bush Seminar Series - Transforming the Debate about livestock systems transformation Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025Time: 1.30 pmLocation: the Roslin Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RGSpeaker: Dominic Moran GAAFS, TRADE Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025Time: 2.10 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22Speaker: Nelly Olova, School of Biological Sciences, The University of EdinburghHost: Internal Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - protozoan - crypto genetic screens Date: Friday 5 December 2025Time: 2.10 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM Password: IIIRsem24Speaker: Bishara Marzook, The Francis Crick InstituteHost: Andrew Maclean Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Protozoan diseases of cattle Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025Time: 1 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24Speaker: Liam Morrison, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, MidlothianHosts: Achim Schnaufer/K Matthews Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA Date: Wednesday 14 January 2026Time: 2.10 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22Speaker: Simon Boitard, CBGP MontpellierHost: Matthew Hartfield Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Winter Session Date: Thursday 22 January 2026Time: 1.30 pm to 5pmLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeakers: Dr. Amanda Gibson (Aberystwyth)Prof. Andrew MacDonald (Edinburgh, IIIR) Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Spring Session Date: Thursday 30 April 2026Time: 1.30 pm to 5pmLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeakers: Dr. Achille Broggi (Centre d'immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, France)Prof. Richard Grencis (Manchester)Dr. Karen Mackenzie (Edinburgh, CIR) Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Summer Session Date: Thursday 11 June 2026Time: 1.30 pm to 5pmLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeakers: Dr. Mike Dolan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)Dr. Juan Quintana (Manchester)Dr. Jing Qui (Edinburgh, CDBS) This article was published on 2024-08-28
